Microcurrent at Home - How Celebrities are Using Microcurrent to Lift and Tone Their Face

MICROCURRENT: 

Can it really lift sagging face muscles and take 5-10 years off your appearance...immediately?


In a word, yes, albeit temporarily.

Microcurrent at Home - How Celebrities are Using Microcurrent to Lift and Tone Their Face

Microcurrent: It’s a simple tool, really. Two wands, negative and positive, and electrical current running between. Simply said, just apply both wands to the right areas of your face, and electrical current flows through the skin and facial muscle, causing a tightening. Properly done, it doesn’t feel like anything's happening.

An office treatment is the best. A skilled Esthetician can really lift, tone and re-sculpt those muscles…at least temporarily. To keep those results, you should have a regular (if pricey) standing appointment…or a nice little home machine that can maintain.

It’s like adding caffeine energy to your face. Like coffee perks up your brain, microcurrent perks up your face. A brightness from blood flow. A tightening and firming from the current. An overall “rested” effect.

“It’s not about skin, It’s about muscle.”

Anti-aging is really a misnomer. You cannot stop aging, but you can do it well. Microcurrent is just here to help the process be a bit more graceful.

Microcurrent has been around…a while. The technology itself was created   around the turn of the century (1900s) as a strictly medical device, targeting atrophy in patients with Bell’s palsy and muscle paralysis. The prods were used all over the body, including the face (a type of this physical therapy is still practiced today).  

A side effect, most welcome, was the fact that the patient’s skin was looking younger, more toned and glowing so naturally, microcurrent was picked up by the esthetic practitioners. Now it’s touted as a treatment to lift, tone, and firm the skin without the cost, time, cutting involved in an actual   facelift.

Off-label, licensed practitioners says they have seen conditions from rosacea to acne clear up over the course of a few treatments. As an anti-aging treatment, it should be started in one’s early 30s, but theoretically any high school or college girl, pre-prom or grad photos, could benefit from it.

It's temporary.

You can actually (temporarily) lift the hairline, reduce naso labial folds, plump and firm the lips and even reduce the puffiness around the eyes. These results can be seen immediately, which is why it can be so addictive!

As one microcurrent devotee remarked, “You get addicted the lift.”

A-listers the likes of Julianne Moore and Jennifer Lopez, just to name a few. Rumor has it that microcurrent is what keeps Jennifer Aniston’s face firm and lifted and looking more like 35 than 50. (I hate to say it, but drugstore skincare cream just ain’t doing it alone!).
Some esthetics pros have even helped their clients wean off more drastic procedures, like fillers and Botox. According to one professional, the paradox of Botox, is that it can actually cause atrophy, since it paralyzes facial muscles.

She says microcurrent “is essential if you do Botox,” re-stimulating the frozen muscle to keep a paralyzed forehead lifted and high, not just slack.

Botox and microcurrent

I personally don’t love Botox. It’s can help with a seriously mature forehead that has many Sharpei-like folds, but most women don’t actually need it like they think they do. They can stave off getting deeply etched foreheads by just doing some microcurrent a few times a week (coupled with some good exfoliation, like a glycolic peel). That way, they maintain control and don’t feel like a slave to the dermatologist.

Not to mention that a microcurrent machine of your very own can be seriously less expensive…especially in the long run. Not having $300 treatments every few months is a wonderful incentive. A one-time price of $300-500 will keep you in microcurrent for several years.

Plus, young girls feel the pull far before they actually need it. Young women in their 20s (even some teens) are looking to never age. This is due to advertising, social media and plain hype by the sellers of these substances.

Instead, a subtler lift that ages with you vs. a “pulled” or “ironed out” look that fillers, lifts and Botox gives you. 

And it can be better than an actual facelift. It doesn’t aim to completely smooth out wrinkles and puff up the skin like fillers. Microcurrent is for lifting the muscle and de-puffing the face, along with fluid-draining and contour-enhancing, which is really what we are after with anti-aging treatments.

 Lift and tone face muscles at home.

It’s true that you cannot replicate the results of a professional microcurrent facial, but you can start getting some amazing results and they are cumulative. This means, the more you do it, the better it gets and the longer the actual treatments can last. A home treatment is very worthwhile.

I recommend a personal start doing their home treatments every other day, or even every day for about two weeks. Once they do that, they can move to every other or every third day. If they keep it up regularly, they’ll maintain and build upon their results. This is for a one-time investment of a home device. If they go to see a professional at least a few times a year for a treatment, then the results will be that much better!